This first-rate Paleobotany Collection website is hosted by University of California, Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology. The site offers an on-line catalog that "contains information on over 22,000 specimens of fossil plants, algae, and fungi catalogued through 2002." Some of the Specimen Data Fields include Specimen Number, Taxon Info, Citation Info, Type Info, Element, and Locality Info. Many of the UCMP's "collections are not duplicated by holdings in other institutions and come from sites no longer accessible to collectors." The site offers links to other Botanical, Paleontological, Phycological, and Mycological catalogues as well as to other UCMP collections such as Vertebrates, Invertebrates, and Microfossils.
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